Introduction
Surfing internet is becoming
quite risky nowadays. You often have to browse through many unwanted
popup windows, decline repetitive dialers install programs, sometimes
your start page is changed without your consent, or new bookmarks
are added without you knowing it. Actually, it is getting worse to
the point we are getting emails everyday regarding those problems
from our surfers.
Your computer can be infected by programs called adware
(unsollicited advertising), spyware (recording your surfing
activity to sell your informations). Those programs come from many
sources, webpages can make you install them unknowingly, or popular
softwares like Kazaa can install them onto your computer.
Before going further, let us give you some informations
on our site, and explain you why PUED.com links are not totally free
of the scamming stuff we just mentioned. Experimented surfers probably
know this already, but if you are new, read this.
We provide links to galleries containing sex pictures,
movies and stories. Some of the galleries are of our own, but the
vast majority is not. Webmasters come to our site to submit their
own galleries, we review them, and if they are clean, we add them
to our huge database. The problem is : some webmasters just can't
live honnestly and change their galleries after they submitted to
PUED.com. They add popups, dialers, anything, but the worst of all
: they can edit your hosts file. If you don't know what it is you
must absolutely read this page.
Very
important : your hosts file can be hacked and modified
There is a way for unhonnest webmasters to add popups
and other nasty stuff to almost every page you visit. With the use
of an exploit they can hack your computer files and modifiy a very
important one :
- Windows 98: c:\windows\hosts
- Windows 2000: c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
- Windows XP: c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
By editing this file they can steal traffic from any
site they want, they can block your access to any site, or they can
add advertising (popup(s), dialers) to them. To hack your hosts file
cheaters only have to have you visit their page, be it a TGP or simply
a thumbnailed gallery! You don't have to click anywhere on the page,
you don't have to install anything, it is a very malicious hack; you
will not even notice that a flaw in your
computer settings has just been exploited...
Open your hosts file (it has no extention)
with notepad. It should contain only this line :
127.0.0.1 localhost
If you see other domain names below it, it has been
changed illegally. Just delete everything but 127.0.0.1 localhost.
Save the file and close it, and you should be fine again. If you are
unsure, you can simply delete the file from your hard drive, it will
be ok. I have heard that making your file read-only can protect
you, but I am unsure.
If you really don't understand how to do this, or if
you want a more advanced protection against this problem and others,
read the next topic (Spybot
can clean your host file too : advanced mode > tools
> hosts file)
Free
anti adware and spyware tool : Spybot, Search & Destroy
Do you have some crap toolbar installed on your explorer?
Do most of the pages you visit contain annoying popups? Can't you
access some of your favorite sites anymore? We have something for
you, and it is totally free. It's called Spybot
Search & Destroy. You will find download links from their
homepage but here is a shortcut to the download link on download.com
:
Click
here to download Spybot
It is very easy of use and will remove most of the adware,
spyware and dialers from your computer. It will also tell you if your
hosts file has been hacked and will
automatically remove invalid entries. Even if your computer is fine,
I highly recommend you to download and install Spybot, because if
your hosts file happens to be hacked in the future, you might not
even be able to access this page again. We have already found several
cheaters redirecting and stealing surfers trying to access PUED.com.com
to shit pages, and there is no doubt it will happen again.
This is NOT a commercial program, but feel free to support
them by doing a donation.Their
software is very helpful for everyone.
Don't forget to update your spybot frequently, you can
find the update button on the first window when you launch the program.
Free
Spyware Protection Software : SpywareGuard
From their website : SpywareGuard provides a real-time
protection solution against spyware. An anti-virus program scans files
before you open them and prevents execution if a virus is detected
- SpywareGuard does the same thing, but for spyware! And you can easily
have an anti-virus program running alongside SpywareGuard.
Visit
their page to find more informations and download the program, for
free! (donate to them if you like it)
Better
safe than sorry : update your Windows system and IE browser
Cheaters use security flaws to install unwanted programs.
Update your softwares frequently and you will be fine. We are talking
about Microsoft systems and browsers because they are the target of
cheaters, being the most popular.
Keep your browser up to date, visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp
and get the latest version and patches for MS Internet Explorer.
Go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
and download the latest upgrades and security patches for Windows
systems. Microsoft finally added a popup-killer into his service pack
2 for windows XP, you should definately install it. However it cannot
block all popups because their programs still have (always had) some
security leaks that can be exploited to launch popups. Read this
section for further help.
If you update regularly you can really avoid a lot of
surfing problems. Click
here to add this page to your bookmarks so you can have the download
links handy in the future.
Help
us by reporting bad links to keep our pages clean
With everyone helping we can provide a better porn surfing
experience to everyone.
You can email me bad gallery urls on PUED.com and i
will remove them asap. If you surf a gallery that contains a popup,
a dialer link, an image link not leading to the big picture, or a
movie thumbnail not leading to the movie, if your antivirus gives
you a warning on the page, if you notice your starting page has been
changed, if you see new bookmarks have been added to your browser
mysteriously, or any other bad stuff, you should click this report
button. We are checking the reports daily and delete the galleries
that are seriously reported. That means, the more comments you add
to the report, the more detailed they are, the most likely we will
trust your report and delete the gallery. This includes giving us
a real email adress; read below.
Our
policy regarding email advertising
It is very simple : we do not tolerate any email advertising.
That means our links are free of sponsors collecting surfers emails,
because most of them will simply spam your email, sell your email
multiple times, etc. If you find a gallery (the manual reviewing process
can never be perfect) containing such links, you should report
it to us and we will delete it.
Link reports : we ask you to enter your email adress
when you report a bad link to us, we use it only to ask you additional
informations, if needed. The email adresses we receive are not stored
anywhere, the reports are simply deleted after reading. We do not
sell them to anyone. I receive enough spam daily and I do not want
surfers to receive more than they probably do.
The
parasite test online
Click on
this link (opens in a new window), this will launch the parasite
test (javascript), then read the results below detection script.
If your computer is infected they will tell you how to uninstall the
parasite.
You might prefer to download
and install spybot, though, as it is much more simple of use and
can detect much more unwanted programs; the parasite pages often only
tells you how to remove the parasites manually, meaning editing the
registry, typing dos commands, etc.
Shortcut : test
your computer.
Tricks
and Free Popups-Killer
Microsoft finally added a popup-killer into his service
pack 2 for windows XP, you should definately install it (through windows
update). However it cannot block all popups because their programs
still have (always had) some security leaks that can be exploited
to launch popups.
Against remaining opups your best and most easy-to-use
weapon is a simple keyboard shortcut : ALT + F4. Press them simultaneously
and it will immediately close the active window. You can do it fast
enough to close very fast opening popups.
You might find some windows that you cannot close with
AFT+F4, try another shortcut : control + w. If you still can't close
them, use control + ALT + Suppr to open the task manager to select
and kill the application manually.
But, if you prefer, we found that Google,
the world #1 search engine has included a great popups-killer ability
with its latest toolbar : Google
Bar. With it you will be able to stop popups entirely, or allow
popups only from specific sites (white list). Best of all, it is 100%
free, and does not require any signup or anything.
Installation is extremely easy and only takes a few
seconds : click here to visit Google
Bar's Homepage and install it.
For a detailed help regarding their popups-blocker ability,
just visit this page : Google
Bar Popups Help.
MyDoom
Email Virus : Scanning and Removal
MyDoom is a new email virus spreading fast and infecting
all mailboxes with infected mails, etc...
Please note : you may have received infected emails
from our domains : PUED.com.com or PUED.com-pics.com but WE ARE NOT
SENDING INFECTED EMAILS. You receive them because some of our surfers
are infected with it from various sources. Try to find more infos
on the way the virus is spreading and you will see you can receive
infected emails from people who are not infected, simply because the
infected emails came from other people, but it is not showing their
true email adress.
We found a cool free page where you can have your system
scanned and if the virus is found, it will be removed.
Follow this link : http://www.webroot.com/services/mydoomaudit.htm
Thanks to Webroot
for the free tool.
How
to remove libereco dialer from your system
This is a forwarded email a surfer sent to us because
he couldn't get rid of the dialer; maybe other surfers will find the
informations useful.
"Dear Customer,
here you'll find the latest update of the uninstall-tool:
http://econnect.libereco.net/uninstall/uninstall.exe
- run the uninstall.exe
- then delete the destop icon and the Icon in the system
tray in the lower right hand corner manually.
- reboot your computer
To delete the dialer manually:
1. Run regedit.exe
2. Find
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mircosoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
3. On the right hand side, are all the programs that
starts automatically.
(You will see the path for the program as well, delete
the entry out of the regestry and please make sure to delete it also
from your harddrive)
4. Delete links out of the start menu and from the desktop.
Please check here HKEY_LOCAL_MASHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run,
too if the dialer still stays on.
If this still doesn't work, please check if there is
a rdve.exe on your computer.
If there is, please go ahead like this:
After using the uninstall program, re-start windows
in MS-DOS mode.
Then change to the directory where the file rdve.exe
is located and delete the rdve.exe-file manually.
(To change into the directory use command:
cd C:\exampledirectory1\exampledirectory2\
and confirm with ENTER, then, when you are inside the
directory, type in
dir
and confirm it with enter. Now you will see the files
in that directory.
If you have found the rdve.exe, type in:
del rdve.exe
and ENTER to delete the file)
Now please turn back to the Windows Mode it should be
gone then."
Removal
of the browser hijacker known as CoolWebSearch
This 'hijackware' has many forms and is very hard to
remove so the best we can do is point you to this complete information
page :
The
CoolWebSearch Chronicles, thanks to Spywareinfo.com.
If you surf TGPs a lot chances are you have encountered
or will encounter a site run by a scammer that will use CWS to steal
traffic (redirect you when you try to access some pages). Remember
the best to keep safe is to always have
your browser and operating system up to date.
Anti-adware/spyware/popups
links
Spyware Info,
the spyware and hijackware removal specialists, informations and software
download links.
Spybot
homepage, there you can download this great anti-scam program
for free and find plenty of informations.
Scumware, a global
information page regarding unwanted advertising and how some companies
are fucking with us.
Doxdesk,
this site will help you detect adwares and such on your computer and
provides removal explanations.
Google Bar,
their clean toolbar for internet explorer has the ability to block
all unwanted popups, for free.
Spyware
Guard, Prevent spyware scripts from infecting you again.
Questions/Comments/Concerns
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